Melodic exchange and musical violence in the thirteenth-century jeu-parti by Mason, J

“…They were created in an aristocratic milieu that was deeply, and often violently, divided; contrafacture stages these aristocratic disputes and animates the form of the jeu-parti, which itself was created in a process of successive contrafacture. …”

Coroner's Pidgin / by Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966, author 641294

“…Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman. …”

Noblewomen, Court Service, and Crossing Borders: England <em>c</em>. 1500-1550 by Nicola Clark

“…Exactly who “counted” as a member of an aristocratic dynasty could get complex extremely quickly. …”
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Following the Thread: Elite Iconography on Weaving Objects at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) by Nora K. Donoghue

“…As small moveable objects used by members of the community, rocchetti present an opportunity to investigate the movement of elite images through the non-elite population of a community and their reception of aristocratic ideology presented in monumental structures.…”
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Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco by Christine Marguet

“…This article examines the presence of comical and/or picaresque micro-structures in spanish baroque novels with aristocratic protagonism –the novelistic equivalent of «courtship» short novels–. …”
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Military command and inertia of consciousness: The Roman warlords in the face of emperor’s power by Telepen, Sergey V.

“…This issue is being investigated in connection with the problem of the inertia of the aristocratic consciousness, which manifested itself in the desire of representatives of the Roman nobility for military glory. …”
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Parentesco, prestigio y poder en la alta edad media : la antroponimia aristocrática en el Reino de León (siglos X y XI) by Mariel Pérez

“…This paper posits that the aristocratic groups developed a specifi c anthroponymy, based on the repetition of certain names throughout generations. …”
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Society, Community and Power in Northern Spain: 700-1000 by Portass, R

“…In the Introduction, I argue that it is necessary to integrate the study of peasant societies with analyses of royal and aristocratic power; reframing the subject in this way, we are able to appreciate the diversity of social experience which characterized both peasant and aristocratic life across the two case studies here examined, Southern Galicia, and the Liébana. …”

Peasant Initiative and Monastic Estate Management in 10th Century Lotharingia by Nicolas Schroeder

“…While it is beyond doubt that local societies were deeply enmeshed in networks of aristocratic control, it is also possible to identify areas of autonomy. …”
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Laissez-Faire Individualism and Its Descent into Ideology in the US, from the Interwar Period to 1960 by Darren Barany

“…In the case of laissez-faire individualism, it had been reduced to a discursive instrument to give economic credibility to an inherently aristocratic and anti-democratic political formation – the American New Right. …”
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The Call of the Wild: John Buchan’s Heroes and the Decline of British Aristocracy by Pilvi Rajamäe

“…Thus we see Buchan’s aristocratic heroes, beleaguered by the encroaching spirit of worldliness, going questing in the wilderness to regain their mental balance and purpose. …”
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Towering above by Mads Dengsø Jessen, Kamilla Fiedler Terkildsen

“…Furthermore, the structural fluctuation of the site at Toftum Næs, and in particular the changes that seem to have taken place during the main use-phase both at the site in question and with regard to the overall development of aristocratic sites with production areas and at the Viking Age towns, will be debated in this paper. …”
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Ca’ Rezzonico in the 19th Century: The Dispersal of its Collections and the New Uses of the Palace by Valeria Paruzzo

“…In the wider phenomenon of the reception and readaptation of aristocratic architectural heritage in post-revolutionary Europe, the repurposing of former aristocratic palaces in Venice after the Fall of the Serenissima in 1797 constitutes a preeminent example. …”
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Wine from birth to death. Alcoholic beverages in the Middle Ages as a cultural and historical phenomenon by Daniela Dvořáková

“…Wine was popularly consumed not only in aristocratic settings, but also in cities, as we demonstrate in this study with the example of the city of Bratislava, which was an important wine producer in the Middle Ages. …”
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Sophokles’ Lucky Day: Antigone by Robert Wallace

“…Antigone answers yes to these questions, chiefly because in the 440s Athens’ democratic polity was strengthening at the expense of aristocratic families, but Sophokles was aristocratic, no friend of Perikles, and here sometimes candidly hostile to the masses. (6) What is the significance of Kreon’s degeneration into tyrannical behavior? …”
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The relationship between the debate on the monetary system during the Eastern Jin and Southern dynasties and East Zhejiang economic region by Yi Yang, Jie Tong, Chan Zhou

“… Not only the indigenous aristocratic families but also northern immigrant families living in east Zhejiang were involved in the debates on monetary theory and policy thought in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties. …”
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Deníky Marie Jany hraběnky Harbuval von Chamaré (1722-1792) by Pavla Janáčková

“… Diaries of aristocratic women who lived in the Bohemian kingdom in the 18th century are rather rare. …”
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The Nobility in Bohemia and in the Habsburg Monarchy within the Legal and Social Context of the 19th Century by Marie Macková

“…Meanwhile, in the traditional area of aristocratic influence its impact was gradually fading. …”
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Lichtenštejnové a Lichtenštejnsko : výběrová bibliografie by Tomáš Knoz, Markéta Peřestá

“…The history of the Liechtenstein family has been studied within the context of aristocratic history/the history of social elites, the history of states, cultural and art history, as well as regional and local historiography. …”
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Giusepe Tommasi Lampedusa: History and time in Il Gattopardo by Clara Corona

“…Heir to an ancient Sicilian aristocratic family, married to the Latvian psychoanalyst Licy Wolff at his descendant of an important Baltic family, distinguished connoisseur of English and French literature, the writer is actually an outsider in the social and cultural landscape of Italy war rather "European" that "Italian" and certainly "Sicilian." …”
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